DeLeon Golden Saturday

Join us as we celebrate, Golden Saturday, on August 6, 2016, in downtown De Leon. Over 40 vendors, live music, Antique Car Show, 42 Tournament, 5K Watermelon Crawl, performances by Happy Toes Dancers, watermelon carving contest, seed-spitting contest, free watermelon for all and so much more.

• 7:00 a.m. 5K “Watermelon Crawl” (Start line in front of FBC De Leon)

  8:00 a.m. 42 Tournament (Prado’s Café)

  8:00 a.m.  Farmers’ Market Opens (Downtown)

  9:00 a.m. Terrill Antique Car Show begins (Downtown)

  10:00 a.m. Vendors Open (Downtown), Ex-Students Meeting (High School),     Judging of Pet Costume Contest (Downtown)

  10:30 a.m. Happy Toes Dancers Perform (Downtown)

  11:45 a.m. Peach & Melon Fashion Contest (ages: 0-2 yr, 3-6yr and 7-10yr)

  12:00 noon Watermelon Carving Contest Begins (Downtown)

  12:30 p.m. Western Gunfight Show (Downtown)

  1:00 p.m. Live Music by Local Band “Sleepy Joe”

  1:00 p.m. Seed Spitting Contest (75’ 2” is our world record set in 1995)

  1:30 p.m. Watermelon Eating Contest (Youth & Adult Divisions; Downtown)

  2:00 p.m. Judging of the Watermelon Carving Contest (Downtown)

  3:00 p.m. Watermelon Slicing - Free watermelon for all (Downtown)

  4:00 p.m. VFD hosts Watermelon Splash!! Kids join in some wet-n-wild fun with the fire department while they spray down Main Street!

  5:00 p.m. Gospel/Bluegrass Music (Festival stage)

  7:30 p.m. Tractor Pulls OTTPA and TTTPA (Tractor Pull Arena)

  10:30 p.m. Presentation of Miss De Leon (Festival stage)